Problems with Genius Bread
I like the Genius gluten-free bread, as the texture seems to be just right for me. It also makes very good toast, which I like to have with proper jam or marmelade. I suppose, I’ve been eating it for perhaps a year, since it started to be stocked in Waitrose in Newmarket.
But I’ve been having problems with it lately, in that it tends to grow a spotty mould after only a couple of days, so I have to throw it away. This probably started a couple of months ago.
I thought that it might be me, but then I use the same bread bin as I did in Suffolk, I keep the bread properly wrapped, when I’ve cut it for the first time. I also thought it could be the air in London, which hasn’t been of too high a quality since about CHristmas.
But then in Waitrose in Upper Street, Islington, when I was reaching for a new loaf, a lady was doing the same. So I asked her, if she’d had a problem with the bread and she said yes.
I did report it in store at Customer Services to an assistant, who seemed to know the product well as she said she had a wheat intolerance.
So is this a temporary problem or something more serious?
The Anonymous Widower 
I dont buy genius, one of the reasons I dont is that I found it went mouldy very quickly. The other reason was that I can get away with a couple of slices, for example in a Starbucks sandwich, but not a whole loaf, I reacted to something in it.
Comment by liz | May 7, 2011 |
My Genius bread gets mouldy also but not within two days. Usually by three or four and is definitely too dry by four days so if it is still Ok then I use it for toast
Comment by Lizzie | May 8, 2011 |
Keep posting. I’m getting all sorts of feedback on this and hopefully I’ll hear from Genius and Waitrose in the next couple of days.
Comment by AnonW | May 8, 2011 |
[…] A couple of months ago, I bought a Genius loaf in Waitrose in Islington Upper Street and it went mouldy almost immediately. I think it might even have been mouldy when I unwrapped it. I did post details here. […]
Pingback by It Pays To Complain « The Anonymous Widower | June 15, 2011 |
I bought genius bread from waitrose godalming and it went mouldy within two days
Comment by ambz | July 16, 2011 |
Complain nicely to both Genuius and Waitrose. I got vouchers out of both. The last couple of loaves I’ve bought have been fine though.
Comment by AnonW | July 16, 2011 |